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Crossover Community Impact by Justin Pickard
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esterday, I had just finished a zoom meeting from home and return to these neighborhoods. Although in this case, I felt pretty had a few minutes before someone would pick me up to take me much as powerless as this kids’ stepdad, there are so many situto the next meeting. There was a knock on the door and the stepations where I see that I have ways to help because of what God dad of a kid, who was in the same class at Hawthorne Elementahas given me. Still, it tore me up thinking of what I would try to ry as our son Isaiah, was standing there. He told me that he and do if my son, Isaiah disappeared. I reached out and drove around his wife had taken the bus somewhere, the neighborhood more with him. They returned, and found that their son was had filed a police report, posted on sogone. They had been very careful to quarcial media- doing everything they could antine during COVID and their kids were think of. Fearing the worst, I reached out The power of Proximity is in online school, and even though it had to a friend who is an IT expert to see if that it puts us where God been a long time since he had played at he could get in his computer and find our house with Isaiah, he was hoping he any communication that would provide can use us.” was here. I told him I hadn’t seen him and a clue. By God’s grace our worst fears offered to drive around with him to look were not realized when he was found by -Justin P. for him – but we couldn’t find him. police that night asleep, unharmed in someone’s yard. Dr. John Perkins, the founder of Christian Community Development, convinced us at Crossover a long The power of proximity is that it puts us where God can use time ago of the power of proximity. Bringing the change under-reus. Although I wasn’t particularly helpful in this situation, I was sourced neighborhoods need is best done when in proximity – able to get to know this kid’s parents better and because God has that is why Dr. Perkins encourages people to relocate, remain, or given me a wife with a gift of counseling and training to become
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